Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Geography
First Advisor
Barbara Brower
Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Paper
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Geography
Department
Geography
Subjects
Human ecology - History, Oregon -- Environmental conditions -- History
DOI
10.15760/geogmaster.05
Abstract
Sheltered by mountains on all sides, the 724-square mile Tualatin Valley has been home to successive groups of people who have shaped the landscape based on their needs, tools, and ideas about the human relationship to nature. Thousands of years of indigenous burning practices and cultivation of native plants, followed by two centuries of European-American fur trapping, agriculture, logging, and urbanization have created the Tualatin Valley landscape of today. Understanding how a history of changing land use has affected the region is integral to building an environmentally sustainable future.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/14692
Recommended Citation
Cope, Camille A., "Making Lives, Changing a Landscape: An Environmental History of the Tualatin Valley, Washington County, Oregon" (2012). Geography Masters Research Papers. 4.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/geog_masterpapers/4
10.15760/geogmaster.05
Comments
A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geography